The Irish Connection And Other Stories

Author : Michael Corrigan
Publisher : Publish America
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Irish American families
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121549286

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The Irish Connection and Other Stories by Michael Corrigan Pdf

The Irish Connection and Other Stories is a collection, each short story self-contained, yet interconnected and focused on the "Irish" experience. Michael Mulligan flees the famine with the wife of a tyrannical Anglo Irish landlord; over a century and a half later, Declan Mulligan researches the legacy of his mysterious great great grandfather, the same Michael Mulligan: cavalry officer at Gettysburg, secret assassin and theatre producer. Between these bookends appear other stories: two sisters survive the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, a young black woman goes to Ireland to find her Irish roots, a promising woman writer faces cancer, and an ailing retired Jewish lawyer has a magical moment on the Aran Islands.

Author : Joe Allard,Richard North
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317860419

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Beowulf and Other Stories by Joe Allard,Richard North Pdf

Beowulf & Other Stories was first conceived in the belief that the study of Old English – and its close cousins, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman – can be a genuine delight, covering a period as replete with wonder, creativity and magic as any other in literature. Now in a fully revised second edition, the collection of essays written by leading academics in the field is set to build upon its established reputation as the standard introduction to the literatures of the time. Beowulf & Other Stories captures the fire and bloodlust of the great epic, Beowulf, and the sophistication and eroticism of the Exeter Riddles. Fresh interpretations give new life to the spiritual ecstasy of The Seafarer and to the imaginative dexterity of The Dream of the Rood, andprovide the student and general reader with all they might need to explore and enjoy this complex but rewarding field. The book sheds light, too, on the shadowy contexts of the period, with suggestive and highly readable essays on matters ranging from the dynamism of the Viking Age to Anglo-Saxon input into The Lord of the Rings, from the great religious prose works to the transition from Old to Middle English. It also branches out into related traditions, with expert introductions to the Icelandic Sagas, Viking Religion and Norse Mythology. Peter S. Baker provides an outstanding guide to taking your first steps in the Old English language, while David Crystal provides a crisp linguistic overview of the entire period. With a new chapter by Mike Bintley on Anglo-Saxon archaeology and a revised chapter by Stewart Brookes on the prose writers of the English Benedictine Reform, this updated second edition will be essential reading for students of the period.

Author : Michael Corrigan
Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781589397637

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Byron by Michael Corrigan Pdf

Byron Duffy is an English teacher recently divorced who doesn't expect trouble teaching English for an Idaho university. A female student enlists his help protecting her boyfriend, Ted, a filmmaker who is secretly filming paramilitary maneuvers by white supremacists called the Posse. He inadvertently films evidence of a murder. A mysterious order of assassins, including a schizophrenic college teacher, is killing the Posse members. When Byron starts an affair with Mary Goldstein, an undercover FBI agent, Byron's life turns complex and dangerous. Agent Goldstein investigates the Posse; armed and paranoid, theft worst conspiracy theories are coming true. As tension builds, Byron is drawn into a conflict that includes the Indian reservation, avenging Indian spirits from another era, local extremists, the FBI and The Mafia. Their love affair turns poisonous when Byron discovers he has a rival: another FBI agent The investigation reveals a cabal no longer local but international. When Mary takes out a Jamaican drug thug, Byron realizes he is a liability to Mary's safety. "Byron" is an action noir thriller with mordant wit and unexpected action. Along the way, Corrigan manages to satirize higher education, latter day hippies, law enforcement, and popular culture.

Author : William Carleton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734023576

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Phelim O ́toole ́s Courtship and Other Stories by William Carleton Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Phelim O ́toole ́s Courtship and Other Stories by William Carleton

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141889504

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The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories by John Buchan Pdf

In 'The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn' and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for five years and more, a Glasgow grocer is shipwrecked and ultimately worshipped as a god, a young mathematician discovers an entirely new aspect of reality and becomes terrified by what he finds there, and an ageing sinner clings grimly, weakly to a hard-won life of decency: John Buchan in each demonstrating his abilities as a gripping writer of short stories. In his introduction, Giles Foden explores Buchan's innate sense of the fascination held by sudden jeopardy and vanished comfort, and the themes of the will and fate in his work.

Author : Madalina Armie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000801972

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The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century by Madalina Armie Pdf

In the mid-1990s, Ireland was experiencing the "best of times". The Celtic Tiger seemed to instil in the national consciousness that poverty was a problem of the past. The impressive economic performance ensured that the Republic occupied one of the top positions among the world’s economic powers. During the boom, dissident voices continuously criticised what they considered to be a mirage, identifying the precariousness of its structures and foretelling its eventual crash. The 2008 recession proved them right. Throughout this time, the Irish contemporary short story expressed distrust. Enabled by its capacity to reflect change with immediacy and dexterity, the short story saw through the smokescreen created by the Celtic Tiger discourse of well-being. It reinterpreted and captured the worst and the best of the country and became a bridge connecting tradition and modernity. The major objective of this book is to analyse the interactions between fiction and reality during this period in Ireland by studying the short stories written by old and emergent voices published between the birth of the Celtic Tiger in 1995 up to its immediate aftermath in 2013.

Author : Tom O'mara
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490744308

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MURDER IN IRELAND & OTHER STORIES by Tom O'mara Pdf

"Five stories about how people choose to navigate life's problems."

Author : Eugene McCabe
Publisher : Orion
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 0575024860

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Heritage, and Other Stories by Eugene McCabe Pdf

Author : Elke D'hoker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319302881

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Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story by Elke D'hoker Pdf

This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many Irish women writers who have made lasting contributions to the genre of the modern short story - yet their achievements have often been marginalized in literary histories, which typically define the Irish short story in terms of its oral heritage, nationalist concerns, rural realism and outsider-hero. Through a detailed investigation of the short fiction of fifteen prominent writers, this study aims to open up this critical conceptualization of the Irish short story to the formal properties and thematic concerns women writers bring to the genre. What stands out in thematic terms is an abiding interest in human relations, whether of love, the family or the larger community. In formal terms, this book traces the overall development of the Irish short story, highlighting both the lines of influence that connect these writers and the specific use each individual author makes of the short story form.

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190840617

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The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

"This handbook surveys the materials, approaches, contexts, and applications of American folklore and folklife studies to guide students and scholars of American folklore, culture, history, and society in the future. In addition to longstanding areas in the 350-year legacy of the subject's study and applications such as folktales and speech, the handbook includes exciting fields that have emerged in the twenty-first century such as the Internet, bodylore, folklore of organizations and networks, sexual orientation, neurodiverse identities, and disability groups. These studies encompass cultural traditions in the United States ranging from bits of slang in private conversations to massive public demonstrations, ancient beliefs to contemporary viral memes, and a simple handshake greeting to festivals encompassing multiple genres and groups. Folklore and folklife studies include material traditions such as buildings and crafts as well as oral and social genres of dance, ritual, drama, and play. Whereas the use of lore often emphasizes speech, song, and story that all people express, the rhetoric of life draws attention to tradition-centered communities such as the Amish and Hasidim, occupational groups and their workaday worlds, and children and other age groups. Significant to the American context has been the cultural diversity and changing national boundaries of the United States, relative youth of the nation and its legacy of mass immigration, mobility of residents and their relation to an indigenous and racialized population, and a varied landscape and settlement pattern. The handbook is a reference, therefore, to American studies as well as the global study of tradition, folk arts, and cultural practice"--

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Americans
ISBN : 0002241056

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Green Shadows, White Whale by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444355215

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The British and Irish Short Story Handbook by David Malcolm Pdf

The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area. Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such as Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D’Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and Sylvia Townsend Warner Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War

Author : Stephen J. M. Brown
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338109712

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Ireland in Fiction by Stephen J. M. Brown Pdf

In this scholarly book, the author lists authors in alphabetical order. His appendix is divided into four parts: Useful works of reference; publishers and series; Irish fiction in periodicals; classified lists.

Author : Anne Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719023742

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The Magical Quest by Anne Wilson Pdf

Author : Mrs. Oliphant
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789360462031

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A Widow's Tale and Other Stories by Mrs. Oliphant Pdf

The novel "A Widow's Tale" was written by means of Margaret Oliphant below the name Mrs. Oliphant, who become a success Scottish author inside the 1800s. The tale is ready the main man or woman, Mrs. Catherine Vernon, who reveals herself dealing with the difficulties of being a widow. Catherine has currently lost her husband and now has to address social expectations and financial problems even as additionally coping with her grief. The book takes location in Victorian instances and looks at how tough it is to be a widow in a society that often limited girls's roles and alternatives. Mrs. Oliphant effectively weaves a story that delves into the social and emotional elements of being a widow. She gives readers a transferring and insightful take a look at one woman's adventure thru loss and adjustment. Catherine modifications as she deals along with her new fact, and the unusual gives us a hazard to observe resilience and personal growth in an extra complex way. Mrs. Oliphant's memories are regarded for the way sensitively they show how human beings feel and the way well they display how things had been in society on the time. "A Widow's Tale" is an outstanding instance of Mrs. Oliphant's writing competencies; it indicates what it become want to be a widow in Victorian England with expertise and story-telling talent.